The Association of Professional Women Engineers, Kwara Chapter, has taken over the educational sponsorship of Miss Atoyebi Abiodun, an SS1 girl-mechanic in Ilorin. Speaking during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin, Mrs Oluwatoyin Ayotunde, the Chairperson of the association, explained that the girl-mechanic is an orphan, who decided to take up the profession of her late father who was a mechanic. Ayotunde explained that the girl-mechanic, who practices her mechanic...

The minister of state for education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has said bulk of money budgeted for education is spent on the 10,500 professors in the country. During an interview with The Punch, the minister stated that students leave the country to pursue higher education abroad owing to the numerous occasions of strike. On Tuesday, the National President of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, hinted that students might have to endure a long-drawn strike in universities due to...